About Natalie
Natalie Alepin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 27 years of clinical experience. She practices in Missouri and has worked across crisis, outpatient, and inpatient settings. Her background includes helping people with anxiety, depression, grief, ADHD, and other life challenges.
Natalie keeps her approach warm and interactive. She treats people with respect and unconditional positive regard. Sessions are practical and conversational, not lecture-based, and she adapts to each person's needs.
Background and approach
Her experience spans a wide range of concerns, including stress, relationship strain, parenting challenges, anger, career shifts, addiction, chronic illness, and bereavement. She has also supported people coping with medical illnesses and chronic pain. Those issues often require both practical coping strategies and attention to emotional impact.
Therapy sessions draw on cognitive behavioral ideas and client-centered, acceptance-oriented perspectives. Natalie blends these with existential and Jungian influences to help people examine values, meaning, and personal patterns. She works collaboratively to set realistic goals and small steps toward change.
Sessions can include skills practice, mindful awareness exercises, and reflective conversation about beliefs and values. Natalie is flexible about style and will shape sessions to what each person finds most helpful. Her aim is to provide steady support while people try new ways of managing stress and daily demands.
Approaches that translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps when anxiety, low mood, or life transitions get in the way of what matters. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the connections between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. It is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental conversation where the client guides what matters most and the therapist responds with empathy and support.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Natalie will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what is helping and what feels workable in everyday life.
Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text messaging make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging support brief check-ins, homework feedback, and ongoing encouragement between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Missouri, Arizona, California
- Languages
- English, French
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